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College in High School Statistics 200
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| Coordinator | Dr. Nancy Pfenning |
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| Address | Department of Statistics |
| University of Pittsburgh | |
| 2710 Cathdral of Learning | |
| Pittsburgh, Pa. 15260 | |
| nancyp+@pitt.edu | |
| Phone | 624-8729 (statistics office, leave message with Diane) |
| 521-8349 (home, if urgent, before 10pm) | |
| 624-8336 (during office hours) | |
| StatTutor | StatTutor Labs 1 through 12 are available here; use with Internet Explorer, not Netscape. If several labs are to be completed in one session, use File>New>Window multiple times for convenient repeated access of the list of 12 labs. |
| Additional Projects |
Food Preference Scatterplot Activity
Stroop Effect Activity with Cards These activities were found on the internet and adapted for our use by Erica Chauvet. Wave Activity This activity was contributed by Jen Staudt. |
The College in High School program was started in 1980 by Dr. Joshua Geller, former Superintendent of the North Hills School District, and Dr. Henry Cohen, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. During the inauguration year, sixteen students enrolled in calculus. The program's success led to its swift expansion; currently CHS involves 110 high schools in Pennsylvania, with an enrollment over 2,600 students.
CHS offers qualified high school students the opportunity to earn University of Pittsburgh college credits during their regular school day. Students do not have to leave their school to travel to the University. They should be academically ready for the challenge of a college level course. Courses are offered in Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Computer Programming, Communications, French and Latin. The courses are taught by a high school teacher who has been norminated by that university department as a part-time adjunct faculty member. Exams are written and monitored by the respective departments at the University of Pittsburgh. Students who register pay less than 20% of the normal tuition. They are eligible for a Pitt I.D. card which provides access to the computer labs, the libraries, student rate athletic tickets, etc.
This four-credit course teaches methods and terminologies of descriptive and inferential statistics. Students who complete this course will be able to conduct their own analyses of standard one-sample or two-sample data sets, follow statistical reasoning and read statistical reports with understanding. Introductory topics in linear regression, analysis of variance and contingency table analysis will also be covered.
Additional information about this course, or about CHS in general, may be obtained by contacting the College in High School Director, Jackie Batt. She can be reached by phone at 412-624-6789 or by e-mail at batt@pitt.edu.
Teachers should have their students complete our online survey by accessing the url I announced at the fall meeting. (If you need that url from me again, just send an email with the request.) On this website I make combined data available to all CHS teachers and students; for 2003-2004, we have data from 267 students from Hampton, Seneca, Center, Montour, Shady, Ft. Cherry, Laurel Valley, West Allegheny, Laurel Highlands, Moon, and Central High Schools' CHS Stat 200 classes.
To download, click on survey1-29-04.txt.
for 2004-2005, we have data from 189 students from Avonworth, Central, Ligonier, Moon, Plum, Seneca, and West Allegheny High Schools' CHS Stat 200 classes.
To download, click on survey11-22-04.txt.
The survey data will show up on the screen. Highlight all of it by typing "Ctrl a" simultaneously and copy it all by typing "Ctrl c" simultaneously. Then start up MINITAB, and right below the cell C1 (above row 1) paste the data by typing "ctrl v" simultaneously. Click OK and the data should be there. Caution! The data may not transfer correctly if there are missing entries. Fill in blank cells with a zero, if appropriate; otherwise, with an asterisk ("*").
Especially when CHS Stat 200 is taught over the period of two semesters, teachers and students may have time to pursue fun, interesting projects that relate to course topics. Eventually, I hope that CHS teachers will contribute their own project ideas to share with fellow teachers via this website. To start things off, I will share my own project involving data analysis and inference using class survey data.
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